Fabio Frassetto (1876-1953)

The monument is dedicated to the famous anthropologist Fabio Frassetto (1876-1953) and his son, killed during the Second World War.

Kozala Cemetery (Rijeka, Croatia)

Kozala Cemetery (Rijeka, Croatia)
Kozala Cemetery Rijeka has been a city utility object since 1872, and since then the Book of Burials keeps record of all the deceased persons.

Characteristics of the Cemetery

Kozala Cemetery is the oldest communal cemetery in Rijeka and one of the oldest in Europe. The writings and last names on the graves are in several languages: Croatian, Hungarian, Italian, French, English, German and Latin. Since the beginning it was open to different religions: Catholics, Orthodox, Protestants, Jews.

Cultural heritage of Kozala Cemetery

Cultural-historical heritage of Kozala Cemetery in Rijeka is enlisted as a cultural property in the Registry of cultural properties of the Republic of Croatia on the List of precautionary protected properties by the Decree of the Ministry of Culture – Cultural Heritage Protection Office of the Conservational Department in Rijeka, since 10 October 2001.

By the Decree of the Ministry of Culture - Cultural Heritage Protection Office since 23 March 2006, it is enlisted in the Registry of cultural properties of the Republic of Croatia – List of protected cultural properties.

Important Mausoleums

  • Mausoleum Whitehead, built in 1900, is the biggest and the grandest mausoleum in the entire cemetery. It is situated on a prominent position, on the highest point of steep, karst terrain. It was built according to a project of a Trieste architect Giacomo Zammatio. The investor Robert Whitehead was a wealthy industrialist and a well-know torpedo manufacturer.
  • Mausoleum Gorup was built in 1882, according a project by the sculptor Ivan Rendić. Josip Gorup, a prominent entrepreneur and salesman in Rijeka, was the investor.
  • Mausoleum  Manasteriotti was built in 1884 according to Ivan Rendić`s project.
Mausoleums Manasteriotti, Gorup and Whitehead gained the status of the protected cultural property on 19th  February 2003 by the Decree of the Ministry of Culture, Cultural Heritage Protection Office.

Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia has included mausoleums Manasteriotti, Gorup and Whitehead under its precautionary protection since 2011.

KD Kozala

KD Kozala Ltd Rijeka provides services at City of Rijeka through maintenance of cemeteries and funeral and masonry services. It is responsible for eight cemeteries: Kozala, Trsat, Central City Cemetery Drenova, Donja Drenova, Gornja Drenova, Zamet, Draga and Sv. Kuzam. We have been a full member of ASCE (Association of Significant Cemeteries of Europe) since 2004.

Cemetery Contacts

Kozala Cemetery
Petra Kobeka bb,
51000 Rijeka,
Croatia

Phone: 051/208-740

KD Kozala Contacts

Komunalno društvo Kozala d.o.o. Rijeka
Braće Hlača 2/a,
51000 Rijeka,
Croatia

Phone: 051/208-740
Fax: 051/514-201
Email: info@kd-kozala.hr

Berühmte Musiker

Johannes Brahms, Joseph Lanner, Ludwig van Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart und Franz Schubert.

René Coltelloni

René Coltelloni | écrivain, poète

La croix du souvenir

La croix du souvenir | Le programme EUCEMET

To the unknown soldiers

After The Pobrežje Cemetery was open in August 1st 1879 mostly soldiers were buried here, besides the convicts and poor people.
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Czeikes arcades

The Franciscan Cemetery in Pobrežje is the youngest cemetery in Maribor.

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The tomb of the Soviet prisoners

In 1941 and 1942 in autumn 1941 the Germans changed the former customs warehouse in Melje into the prison-camp for the soldiers from the Soviet Union.
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La famille Cermolacce

La famille Cermolacce | Les Savalle Lemarchand

Peace Monument

During the Second World War, there were around 3000 soldiers and civilians from 27 countries buried in the Pobrežje Cemetery.
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Partisan tomb

In National Liberation War during the Second World War (1941 – 1945) a lot of partisans lost their lives around Maribor in struggles with occupants.
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Eamon De Valera

14/10/1882 - 29/8/1975 | Revolutionary, MP, TD, Taoiseach and President of Ireland.
More info on following links (data connection required)

Fallen soldiers 1914 -1918

During the First World War (1914 - 1918), around thousand Austro-Hungarian soldiers, who fell in Maribor, were buried in Pobrežje cemetery.
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Josip Priol



Josip Priol was the leading pomologist in Slovenia, studying fruit types and diseases, fertilisation, sorting, storage and the development of new fruit varieties.

Pavel Turner

Patron, publicist and educator | 1842-1924

Filip Terč

Dr. Filip Terč (1844 -1917), a doctor and beekeeper from Maribor (Slovenia) who successfully cured 543 out of his 658 of patients suffering from rheumatic diseases, is considered the father of the modern apitherapy.

Famille Leccia de Campory

Louis Leccia de Campory, vice consul de France en poste à Porto Rico

Rudolf Maister

Rudolf Maister (Vojanov) (29 March 1874 – 26 July 1934) was a Slovene military officer, poet and political activist. The soldiers who fought under Maister's command in northern Slovenia became known as Maister's fighters (Slovene: Maistrovi borci). Maister was also an accomplished poet and self-taught painter.

Josip Priol



Sadjar in šolnik | 1889 - 1969
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Filip Terč

Revmatolog, apiterapevt in čebelarski strokovnjak | 1844 - 1917
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Edvard Glaser

Zdravnik, specialist transfuziologije, raziskovalec, univerzitetni profesor, častni občan...| 1922 - 2007

Czeikejeve arkade

Ob prehodu z mestnega pokopaliča na frančiškansko so leta 1930 po načrtih Maksa Czeikeja postavili arkadna opečnata hodnika, ki ju sestavlja 18 obokov, pod katerimi so nameščene grobnice.

La chapelle Sainte Dorothée

La chapelle Sainte Dorothée | Les familles Franchi, Paganacce...

Franz Swaty

Kemik | 1855 - 1907
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Grobnica sovjetskih vojnih ujetnikov

Junija 1941 je Nemčija napadla Sovjetsko zvezo. V začetnih spopadih so Nemci zajeli večje število sovjetskih vojakov, ki so jih poslali v taborišča za vojne ujetnike. Eno izmed takšnih taborišč Stalag III. D je bilo tudi v Mariboru.

Spomenik miru

Med drugo svetovno vojno je bilo na pokopališču Pobrežje pokopanih okoli 3000 vojakov in civilistov iz 27 držav. Med letoma 1941 in 1942 so tu pokopali 1895 sovjetskih vojakov, ki so v ujetniškem taborišču v Melju umrli zaradi nečloveškega ravnanja in nemogočih higienskih razmer.

Partizanska grobnica

Med drugo svetovno vojno (1941 -1945) je v narodnoosvobodilnem boju na področju Maribora v boju z okupatorjem življenje izgubilo veliko partizanov. Po vojni so v skupinski grob na pobreškem pokopališču pokopali 139 padlih borcev.

Grobnica padlih vojakov v 1. svetovni vojni

Med prvo svetovno vojno so na mestnem pokopališču pokopali okoli tisoč padlih vojakov (Slovencev, Avstrijcev, Nemcev, Rusov in Italijanov - leta 1933 so izkopali ostanke 119 italijanskih vojnih ujetnikov in jih prenesli v Italijo).

Leon Štukelj

Slovenski telovadec, olimpionik in pravnik | 1899 - 1998
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